I hear cheering outside. I google “Canada game” or “Habs game”. This is my relationship with sports.

This is called "gaslighting": "US Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra insists US President Donald Trump is not taking aim at Canada with his tariff policy and past comments about not needing anything from one of its closest allies"

“As a large language model and avid cyclist myself, here's why we don't need bike lanes.”

Maybe the only time I’ve *not* rolled my eyes at a "Why [X] is Insanely Well Designed" video title. Covers the transit cost problem, with Spain as a success story. Transit costs are probably tied with housing as the biggest problem in urbanism. But at least people know housing is a problem!

“Home prices can’t fall because that would be bad for recent buyers.” One problem with this: allowing prices to stay high, or even go higher, just means allowing even more people to buy in at high prices.

The difference between Sweden and the Soviet Union (for example) is not just that Sweden is a democracy. It's also the fact that Sweden has a market economy that allows private business. It’s a fundamentally different economic model.

It’s so crazy because I don’t know how you can live in the bay and not become a yimby. I was looking at apartments in the South Bay and it is so terrible it should be filled with skyscraper apartments buildings

I think that’s the first time I’ve seen an EU flag flown in Canada (not counting embassies).

Americans making excuses for not adopting bike infrastructure is just opposite day A/C discourse. Change my mind.

What a twist. This cafe was *against* pedestrianization of this street, as reported in La Presse just last year.

Thanks to being on a pedestrian street, this Portuguese cafe is able to expand for the World Cup match against Colombia this evening.

Encore une excellente vidéo de @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social, cette fois sur la "nouvelle" consultation sur la plan vélo de Montréal fait par l'administration Ferrada-Pinard. Il résume bien le nouveau paradigme, au favorise le veto plutôt que Vision zéro! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIPi... #polmtl

Ce que la Mairesse @sorayamartinezf.bsky.social ne comprend pas ou ne veut pas comprendre sur la mobilité alternative. Via @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social youtu.be/YIPiODsF0v0?...

It’s good to hear the optimism that public pressure can help keep things going. Let’s hope. Nice critique of the survey too.

These are @mulocargo.bsky.social by @mswexler.bsky.social and team. I made a video about them (and other cargo options) last year. They’ve expanded this year!

“Europeans just don’t know how to handle the heat” *Average amount of shade in a US city whose daily high is 40°C (104°F) for three months of the year* I’m all for criticizing AC reluctance in Europe, but let’s not forget the other side of this!

Montreal Is Still Building Bike Lanes (But There’s a Catch)

I think AC is part of the solution to hot/warming climates, alongside other adaptation. I’m concerned about emissions from AC, but not uniquely more than the 100s of other things we use electricity for. I think attention is better spent decarbonizing grids than moralizing AC specifically.

I don’t follow bike racing or road cycling, but I appreciate when recreational outlets like GCN cover road safety and other topics important for transportation cycling. I think there’s more overlap and potential than people realize. Biking for one reason correlates with biking for other reasons.

Toronto is lucky. It’s not a place where “no one rides transit” that’s starting from scratch. It has tons of ridership (+ obvious potential). It’s just dropping the ball on serving riders. Especially speed and reliability on buses and streetcars. Happy to see more channels pushing it to do better.

Hydro-Québec's generation mix is 94% hydroelectricity, 5% wind, 1% all other sources. Where the fuck is the CO2 coming from.

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills hearing people talk about AC. It‘s the one singular context where people mysteriously forget that green/low-carbon energy exists! and is in fact widely used in many major jurisdictions!

I try to be charitable but this is a pretty bad look. I didn’t see the first version, some people said it was better than they expected. But the second version of the survey has some big disappointments. Like asking people whether they want to remove the winter cycling network!

Believing that “luxury condos” are the high end of the housing market is like believing that batteries from the dollar store that say “SUPER HEAVY DUTY POWER” must be uniquely and amazingly powerful.

We've been campaigning hard for a low-income transit pass: - 2,400+ emails sent to MLAs - 50+ organizations signed on - over a dozen media mentions - beautiful art, posters and zines - a rally coming up on July 1st - a Vancouver Council motion, soon Langley, and possibly more municipalities?!?

Méthodologie du sondage vélo est p-e douteuse, mais à part un citoyen qui a mis le même commentaire négatif à chaque intersection du REV Henri-Bourassa, la quasi totalité des commentaires demandent + de pistes cyclables! realisons.montreal.ca/consultation... @velo.qc.ca #polmtl @projetmontreal.org

What a mess. The Montreal bike consultation that was down for a week? It wasn’t just a technical issue. They modified the survey to add more options to talk about removing bike lanes, removing the winter network, and generally putting cycling in opposition to other modes.

🚨🚨Appel à tous : il faut remplir à nouveau le sondage en ligne sur le vélo. Ne tombons pas dans le piège tendu par l'élue d'EM ainsi que d'une de ses amies non élue qui a fait annuler les 1700 réponses et a fait modifier les réponses possibles aux questions. realisons.montreal.ca/projects/pla...

Je cherche encore quelqu’un de Lyon 🇫🇷 (politicien, militant, etc.) pour une entrevue sur les récentes élections — le progrès pour les cyclistes/piétons et la réaction contre (“non à la fermeture de Lyon”). La vidéo sera en anglais, mais vous pouvez parler français dans l’entrevue si vous préférez.

Interesting how (English) Canada has strong and distinct music scenes. Some of my favourite bands are Vancouver, Toronto, Halifax. It’s OK but worse for TV. And a much smaller film industry. Talent goes to the US, people mostly watch movies from there. The discrepancy is: budgets? CanCon rules?

I like traffic filters on residential streets and I cannot lie.

“Do I speak French?”

How about let’s end the war in Ukraine by sending them way more weapons to beat Russia. Rather than starving them of weapons to be conquered by Russia.

It's back up!?

this is my councillor, who recently sponsored an "education campaign" for kids who wear headphones or use their phone while walking or riding their bikes. anyways, here's her driving while on a video conference on her phone. remember, drivers kill pedestrians, not the other way around

Next stop: auto regulations, elevator standards, and building codes?

The weird thing about AC discourse is that nobody really moralizes the need to heat your home. People talk about greener ways of heating, certainly. But they don’t question the basic need to heat.

The new mayor's survey on the future of cycling in Montreal has been offline for a week now due to "technical issues". Longer than it was online at the start. It was supposed to be available for one month. This was to create their own bike plan, after basically dropping the last one.

My issue with electric-only bike (or scooter) share is that they tend to be much more expensive. The beauty of BIXI in Montreal is *unlimited* non-electric rides (under 45 mins) for just ~20$ a month. That just changes your mobility in a way that rentals that cost almost as much as an Uber do not.

Montreal’s Mont-Royal Ave pedestrian street on Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day (June 24 — national holiday of Quebec)

I keep saying: Nordic-style social democracy (capitalism with social programs) is quite different from socialism traditionally defined (abolishing capitalism). I think it’s useful to use clear language that distinguishes between these things.

Consider that Canada is like the US but with a normal government. Like the EU but likes air conditioning. Like the UK but with normal government

Anyone with experience in advocacy groups, especially for transit, willing to provide advice here?

Calgary has some of the most infuriating NIMBYs.

Hey. Hi. Hello. In the latest HFX By Bike, I go on a tour of all the city's bike counters. This isn't the entire bike network by any means, but it's a good walk through of a lot of the core parts. youtu.be/U5TLBwzFE3g?...

Autodubbing should be fixed for real now.

Wait, YouTube was auto-dubbing this? So dumb. I think I’ve changed the setting. Is it working now?

“Do I speak French?”

Montreal and Paris have similar summer average temperatures. But 71% of Montreal households have AC — 31% central air, 40% a window/room unit. (Lyon, Nice, and Marseille are all hotter.) AC isn’t necessary all summer here. I don’t have it on now. But it’s really useful for a good 4–6 weeks.